#what’s obamas last name joke

[the-weirdest-human-of-them-all]

Y’all even notice how absentmindedly sexist we are when in comes to politics? My sister who’s a big writer and reader read some article about how people seem to call female people in politics by there first name and their male counterparts by there last name. I mean obviously we don’t see that in official things, but it’s still wild to realize people cal vice president Harris Kamala and call former president Trump, well, Trump. Hilary Clinton was always Hilary, but Donald and Joe were always Trump and Biden. So all this to say, my family started saying the opposite of that on purpose. Meaning we say Donald or Joe when referring to them, and vice president Harris when referring to the woman herself.

[captianprices40thson]

Plz write a mw2 story with all 141 members going to a bar after m/n had a successful mission. M/n got drunk and starts flirting with a LOT of guys and ghost and soap got jealous and starts acting all pissed. It ends up with ghost and soap forcing M/n to sit and shut up after him asks a guy to give him a bj.

I’m a sorry sucker and this happens all the time.

Requested: Yes

Warnings: None

Ghost and Soap are dating, both have a thing for Reader. Reader has a thing for both of them, but he doesn’t act on it.

Word count: 1.7k

Notes: Once again, class means nothing when you have fanfiction to write. I apologise for this being shorter than all the other ones, but I am not as good at writing fluff y’all. I appreciate every reblog, like and comment that I get, thank you so much for leaving a note! My requests are open and I am currently working on one. Check out what I do and don’t on my profile. Also, sorry that this took longer than expected to write. It was my birthday and I’ve been busy with everything surrounding that. If you want me to rewrite this at ALL, PLEASE TELL ME.

(Also I have no idea how flirting works. The three (3) people I’ve ever dated just sort of intimidated me and they were attracted to my sad cat personality…and probably my dedication to THE GRIND. And not to flex, but imagine Alejandro, Rudy and Valeria and take them and their personalities, they’re basically the people I dated. So obviously, I have no idea what’s going on in the dating world.)

“Cheers to another successful mission, gentleman.” Price smiled, raising his glass to the rest of the table, all of which raised their own in return. Ghost was not only not drinking due to his mask, but he was also in charge of driving everyone back, meaning he raised an empty water glass.

“Still don’t know how you managed to locate me, Y/N. I swore I was a deadman the moment my radio broke.” Gaz smiled, looking over at you, who had already begun downing your drink of choice, paid for by your captain as always.

“Yep, eyes of a bat that one.” Ghost smiled, placing an arm around you since you clearly weren’t going to respond. For some reason, Soap scoffed and spoke up.

“Ghost, come on. Everyone knows bats have terrible eyesight. Ever heard of the phrase ‘blind as a bat?’” Soap smirked, acting like he had gotten Ghost trapped in a corner when in actual fact he was highlighting his own stupidity.

“No…bats have great eyesight. ‘Blind as a bat’ is wrong and a misconception.” Ghost spoke back, taking his arm back from you and placing it on the table so he could explain to Soap more. Meanwhile, your eyes had caught sight of a guy over at the bar.

“Jesus christ. That's some eye candy right there.” You unknowingly whispered to yourself, catching the ear of Gaz who was also looking over in that direction. He smiled, understanding the appeal that the tall stranger had.

“I’m gonna go talk to him.” “I think he’s with friends. Do you really wanna bother him?” Gaz asked, looking over to you. You smiled, taking a sip of your respective drink and placing the empty glass down on the table. You pushed yourself up off the table, placing a hand down on the wood as you exited the booth.

“I have two holes, Garrick.” You informed him. He seemed to accept that answer and only after you had walked away he called out a very confused ‘what!?’

You turned back to him, motioning to your mouth and then making a circle around your ass. He looked very confused and shocked, deciding that clearly you were a lightweight right then and there and also, you were way too drunk already.

Meanwhile, Price had finally finished breaking up the ‘fight’ between Ghost and Soap about bats, which had somehow turned into them trying to figure out Obama’s last name. Ghost was insistent that Obama was his first name as a joke and Soap wasn’t picking up that Ghost was joking.

“His last name is Obama.” Soap whispered as he crossed his arms, but Ghost was already distracted with the absence of you. He looked around the booth, it felt empty without you.

“Anyone seen Y/N?” “I quite like that one, don’t lose him.” Price nodded, taking a swig of his own drink. Ghost looked over to Gaz, who put his own glass down and spoke up.

“I uhm…he just went off to go talk to some guy. He’d be over by the bar.” Gaz explained, pointing a thumb over to the bar. There were people standing in front of where Ghost assumed you would be so he couldn’t confirm you were there, but he trusted the word of Gaz over his own judgement anyday.

“Come on.” The taller man huffed, grabbing Soap’s wrist and hauling him up so that they could exit the booth, both of them having to shuffle over Gaz and Price’s laps to get out. Soap groaned, asking why he had to go with him.

“Because, you’re an asshole and you know your way around these bars better than me. Also, I don’t want to talk to anyone and we’re gonna have to go grab our man back.” Ghost responded, not letting go of Soap’s arm as they walked around the bar. There were many bright colours and people walking around, making it hard for either man to concentrate.

“I see him.” Soap spoke up, pointing over to a corner where you were sat, clearly sipping someone else's drink while you chatted to the man. They both made their way over to you and Ghost placed a hand on your shoulder.

“Y/N, Come on. We’re celebrating a win, you can’t flirt with every man you see.” Soap smiled, ushering a quick apologies to the man sitting opposite you. To no one’s surprise, he didn’t mind the fact you were talking to him. He seemed sad to see you go.

“Go celebrate with your…friends, man. I’ll see you later.” He smiled, giving you a wink as you stood up, a small blush appearing on your face. (Yeah that’s right, baby. I’m giving you charisma because you deserve it.)

“Jesus, Y/N. We don’t give you attention for three seconds and you’re already trying to get into someone’s pants?” Ghost asked as he walked you back to the bar, noticing how sad you were that you were no longer flirting with a stranger at a bar. When a small ping went off and you checked your phone to a text message from the man you were just chatting with. A picture of you being dragged back to your booth.

“How did you already get his number?” Soap whisper-shouted as he watched you smile at the message. You merely shrugged your shoulders, giving them a cat-like smirk as you walked back.

—--

“Where the fuck did that little bitch go.” Soap asked exactly two minutes after they had sat back down, looking over at the empty spot at the booth where your ass was meant to be sat. You know in cartoons where something was meant to be somewhere and the little broken white lines appear around where it should be? That's sort of what was going on in his mind.

“Bar.” Gaz simply replied. Soap’s head shot over to where Gaz had said and sure enough, you were talking to a guy who looked like he could kill you in three seconds, next to him a guy that looked as if he couldn’t harm a fly. 

“Jesus Christ, come on. Let’s get him before he gets himself into trouble.” Ghost groaned, knowing that once you were drunk you basically had no filter.

“We’ve got to strap him down next time. This is meant to be a celebration between teammates, not…not Y/N leaving the table every time he can.” Soap mumbled and Ghost stopped for a minute, looking down at his shorter companion.

“Hey…does it really bother you that much that he keeps leaving?” Ghost asked and Soap nodded, crossing his arms.

“It’s just…we’re meant to be a team, a group. We’ve just been through hell together and all Y/N can think about is hopping on the next dick he sees. I just thought we could all spend some time…together, as the fucked up family we are.” Soap admitted, making eye contact with Ghost. There was sympathy in Ghost’s tone when he spoke next.

“Well…we’re gonna get him back, place him in between us and I'm gonna take his phone so he won’t receive any messages from any other guys other than the ones he’s supposed to be with. Alright?” Ghost told him and Soap smiled, nodding as they walked up to where your horny ass was sitting.

“-And it’s like, holyyyy shit. I was nearly shot!” As both men came into earshot, they could hear you clearly describing the mission you were just on to the two men, both of them looking interested as hell. Soap looked over to Ghost, knowing they should stop you seeing as all that stuff was classified and shouldn’t be told to random’s in this bar. When Ghost was about to place his hand on your shoulder and drag you back, you decided to say something the Scot nor the Brit would expect.

“Hey, can you get me a Sidecar with a side of a BJ?” You asked the main guy you were talking to. Both military men exchanged a glance before Soap decided to step in.

“WOAH THERE, Y/N. LETS NOT.” He awkwardly spoke, placing a hand on your shoulder and making you get off the stool. You groaned something about them ruining your chance at getting lucky before immediately tripping over and falling face first on the floor.

“I apologise for him, guys.” Ghost apologised to the men before helping Soap get you off the floor. Despite being in the military causing you to go through intense physical and mental training, you really weren’t heavy to them at all, which made it easier to drag you back to the table.

____

“Yeah, this is better than being at the bar. No offence to any of those guys, but you four are my type of people.” You admitted, now only being fed water in order to attempt to not make you die.

Soap shot a smile at Ghost, who gave him a wink since his smile couldn’t be seen under the mask. Price looked over his three men sitting opposite him and Gaz, both of them moving so that you could be boxed in.

“Once again, while we have all of you here, cheers to another successful mission, gentlemen.” Price smiled, raising his glass. The rest of the task force respectfully doing the same.

[ausetkmt]

'White supremacist manifesto': Report unmasks 'history of racist writing' by Project 2025 architects

Former President Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's far-right 900-page blueprint for a second Trump presidency.

Yet many of its proposals have come from Trump allies. And Heritage had a strong presence at the 2024 Republican National Convention.

Moreover, Trump's running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), wrote the forward for a forthcoming book by Heritage President Kevin Roberts — who, critics say, threatened violence against Project 2025's opponents when he told Real America's Voice, "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."

READ MORE: 'Now we crush Trump': Michael Moore unveils 2024 battle plan

In an article published on July 29, USA Today's Will Carless reports that according to some critics, Project 2025 has ties to white nationalists and white supremacists.

Carless notes that author Michael Harriot has attacked Project 2025 as a "white supremacist manifesto."

"A closer look at the named contributors to Project 2025 adds to the concern," Carless explains. "A USA Today analysis found at least five of them have a history of racist writing or statements, or white supremacist activity. They include Richard Hanania, who for years, wrote racist essays for white supremacist publications under a pseudonym until he was unmasked by a Huffington Post investigation last year."

Carless adds, "Failed Virginia GOP Senate candidate Corey Stewart, another named contributor, has long associated with white supremacists and calls himself a protector of America's Confederate history tasked with 'taking back our heritage.' One Project 2025 contributor wrote, in his PhD dissertation, that immigrants have lower IQs than white native citizens, leading to 'underclass behavior.' Another dropped out of contention for a prestigious role at the Federal Reserve amid controversy over a racist joke about the Obamas."

READ MORE: Trump's dark mental state is growing even 'worse' as election draws closer: historian

Civil rights attorney Arjun Sethi argues that Project 2025's proposals would, if implemented, be highly detrimental to non-white Americans.

Sethi told USA Today, "Project 2025 is a plan about how to regulate and control people of color, including how they organize, work, play and live. It seeks to regulate what they do with their bodies, how they advocate for their rights, and how they build family and community — all while disregarding the historical injustices and contemporary persecution they have experienced."

Harriot argues that Project 2025 is full of ideas that have been promoted by white supremacists and white nationalists.

Harriot told USA Today, "One of the things that you see when you read Project 2025 is not just the racist dog whistles, but some ideas that were exactly lifted from some of the most extreme white supremacists ever."

Although Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025, Harriott describes it as an "employee manual" for a second Trump Administration.

Harriot told USA Today, "There's some cognitive dissonance. Trump doesn't get elected by people who are just outwardly racist, and being associated with Project 2025 would dismantle his plausible deniability, because it's so blatantly racist."

[wtf-a-psychoanalysis]

Yuichi and Miyamoto? Yeah I know them

Name debate on what is Yuichi's First name is worse than the what is Obama's last name however from this stupid Joke comes a beautiful idea

Leosagi Bullet Train AU

With Yuichi being Yuichi (aged up like in the Full Lair fic by @shittygaypornmagazine)

Miyamoto Usagi being the Elder

And Future Leo being Ladybug

That's all i have so far this is my gift to the fandom, do whatever you wish

(tho it's heavily implied that Jotaro's gonna be pushed off a building) idk maybe find a way to include Bebop and Rocksteady

[cocksley-and-catapult]

i think it would be really funny if catapult Was his first name and everyone's been asking what his name was,, by name it's like the obamas last name joke

[beardedmrbean]

Oh about the thing of a world where Jewish people aren’t told about what Hadrian did to Israel hence the modern Jewish diaspora

While they aren’t taught that in general schools, hmm feel like this is a sitcom joke

Jewish child: Mom why I have to deal with my annoying cousins again? What this holiday about

Mom: It’s about when people try to wipeout our tribes and we survived!

JC: Wait wasn’t that the last holiday we got together?

M: There a lot more ,but I can avoid next the family get together without your grandma guilt tripping me

Actually if I remember correctly the night in museum sequel had a pre Moses pharaoh couple in it and they mention they thought their Jewish slaves were fine.

But Ben Stiller (a Jewish man) character pointed out to them that it actually sucked for his ancestors and their former slaves made holidays reminding how bad it was.

And the hoteps-waaaaait

Oh…the Tutankhamen phenomenon, actually I saw a National Geographic magazine irrc at Walmart. And I sent it to my friend that the irony of how the Egyptian erased Tut names from records and pretend he never existed. But now millions of people had, have, and will say his name

But the Egypt phenomenon, I think people don’t really know Tut is an extremely recent find. Like only a century old. He was important to the Egyptology because he tomb wasn’t constantly looted and body barely meddled

But then we learned the truth about why he wasn’t touched. The cult of aten, the priests of Ra, why he was never brought up in previews pharaoh list. Only for most Egyptians having a vague idea that there was this heretical pharaoh prior to Rameses

But something got me wondering about people idea of Egypt…wait y’all think the Egyptians couldn’t get as corrupted as the Roman’s or Chinese? King tut is a prime example how corrupted they could be with how they exploited and treated him after death

Actually you can go to tut tomb in origins dlc and there some words on a tablet they translate to “May he be remembered!”….the tragedy it’s wasn’t his direct civilization that made sure he is remembered today. It was though who came after long after ancient Egypt died

Oh tangent, but I’m getting terrified with how so many people have a 10 year old comprehension on non white civilianizations

Also yes a lot of the slave trading African kingdoms are gone….buuuut everyone knows their descendants are running around.

Also for me, I like to sneak around without telling my identity. So I know how much horse shit most SJWs are. And while this harder, I can easily sneak into Internet forums or chat groups of native Africans and realize the tricks and exploitation. Of course not all, but I got a bitch snap of reality how they basically CRINGE when a black American comes their way

Tbf the black Americans they loathe are usually the same ones I loathe too

Also you mention the passive aggression, here the thing, if they try the con artists shit, I will hint at me going beyond the surfaced levels.

And if they don’t stop, I unleash my knowledge of the Dahomey on them.

Also which African countries asked for slave reparations?

Fuck them

No seriously fuck them on Satan cock

It was YOUR ancestors that sold my ancestors for guns. MCU Wakanda, pan Africa bs, Obama bombing the living fuck out of your ass. The Congo shit, ALL OF THIS STARTED FROM YOU!

I would rather marry a direct descendant of Robert Lee or President Davis at a confederate theme wedding than give one penny to these activists asking for refunds

Jewish child: Mom why I have to deal with my annoying cousins again? What this holiday about Mom: It’s about when people try to wipeout our tribes and we survived! JC: Wait wasn’t that the last holiday we got together? M: There a lot more ,but I can avoid next the family get together without your grandma guilt tripping me

Really one of the best ways for everyone to keep track, Jews and Gentiles alike.

Actually if I remember correctly the night in museum sequel had a pre Moses pharaoh couple in it and they mention they thought their Jewish slaves were fine. But Ben Stiller (a Jewish man) character pointed out to them that it actually sucked for his ancestors and their former slaves made holidays reminding how bad it was.

I don't remember if I've seen the 2nd one or not, Ben and Owen get together and fart out a movie whenever they feel like hanging out for a month or so same way Adam Sandler does it, which is fun since they get to give lots of people work the same too, it's a good formula.

Nice that he tossed that bit in with the Pharaoh

But then we learned the truth about why he wasn’t touched. The cult of aten, the priests of Ra, why he was never brought up in previews pharaoh list. Only for most Egyptians having a vague idea that there was this heretical pharaoh prior to Rameses

There's a lot of stuff going round from that time, Akhenaten and all that and people theorizing connections between the cult of Aten and the Israelite's, since monotheism and all.

Hyksos is the people of the 15th dynasty of Egypt, but they were northern Egypt at the Nile Delta, 16th and 17th dynasties were going at the same time.

Theory runs with Joseph having established the area after his whole thing, not sure if the timelines work too well or not haven't read a whole lot on it, yet.

Also yes a lot of the slave trading African kingdoms are gone….buuuut everyone knows their descendants are running around.

That made me look for something and find something else I'll need to read in a little bit.

Why slave descendants want the Benin Bronzes to stay in US

TL:DR; I'm guessing is.

Also which African countries asked for slave reparations? Fuck them

That was part of the question, looking at benin, states bordering benin might have a claim but they should make it against benin.

Also these areas

But might be more the Afro Iranians, Afro Palestenians, and any other of those groups that may exist in MENA as a result of being sold into slavery that will want to collect from those

It was YOUR ancestors that sold my ancestors for guns. MCU Wakanda, pan Africa bs, Obama bombing the living fuck out of your ass. The Congo shit, ALL OF THIS STARTED FROM YOU! I would rather marry a direct descendant of Robert Lee or President Davis at a confederate theme wedding than give one penny to these activists asking for refunds

Harsh, fair, and funny.

Congo will get theirs from Belgium, they kinda deserve it after what Leopold did, think they've gotten some already.

[lastweeksshirttonight]

It was 95 degrees with 35% humidity today, my house feels like the inside of a blast furnace, and somehow I decided this was prime "watch and write about John" hours. So greetings from the surface of the sun, we've got more LWT to see!

Last Lee Tonight (wherein there is, theoretically, a universe where John Oliver is writing Tumblr reviews of Lee's topical news comedy) Season One, Episode Seven

(original air date: 6/15/2014) Major topics covered: US immigration reform, Washington Football Team Interview: Stephen Hawking

Trigger warning: racist iconography

"If you don't learn the recorder, you're fucked." "Seriously though, playing the recorder sets you up for life."

So uh, fun story. Remember how last week I said that the YouTube channel was finally starting to get the hang of things by episode six, aside from the occasional oddity of a one-minute clipped joke here and there?

The YouTube team didn't upload the main story from this episode to the LWT channel. At all.

We're still in prime "figuring this shit out" mode! Strap in!

That's consistent across the entire episode. After the last episode, which saw the show starting to coalesce into its modern form, this episode seems to go back to the drawing board and toss all kinds of shit at the wall to see what sticks - it's honestly most reminiscent of episode one. The opening segments are lightning-fast and don't transition into each other well, the central topic doesn't go nearly as deep as you'd expect it, and there's a random (but amazing) interview at the end of the show. I wonder if the next episode will swing the pendulum in the opposite direction again.

John starts our episode banging and then punching the desk, going in the opposite direction from our last episode. He seems to be taking out his rage on the glass countertop, which he looks very silly doing.

We begin by revisiting net neutrality, from Episode Five. (I'm linking it because I wrote this months ago, and if your executive dysfunction is anything like mine, you totally forgot everything about the episode.) In that episode, John described Tom Wheeler as a dingo, and somehow Tom Wheeler was asked about the LWT episode in a FCC meeting. He speaks like a literal robot and refutes, in the weirdest way possible, the idea that he's a dingo. How is that the thing you focus on from that whole segment. How. What? Christ.

The unsaid caption "Satire is not C-SPAN, however." goes without comment, which is unbelievable to me. That phrase cracked me up so hard I had to pause the episode. I know there was a rich vein of missing the point entirely and subsequent dingo humour to mine here, but come on John, that caption is a gift.

We then move to Iraq, where ISIS forces crossed nearly the entire country in five days and stole $400 million dollars. This bit only goes for about a minute before we move to another topic, Obama visiting the Standing Rock Sioux reservation and pledging aid. We finally then transition into a discussion of the Washington Football Team, who, at the time, were still refusing to change their goddamn racist name and iconography, which I will not be using here. (I did learn from writing this that apparently they have rebranded - FINALLY - as the Washington Commanders in 2022, after two seasons of being Washington Football Team.)

I appreciate how John lets an extremely sincere and powerful commercial made by Native Americans regarding the offensive name largely speak for itself, aside from one dark joke at the end, before discussing what an abject shitwhistle former Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder is and how pathetic his protestations are.

It did take a while, but Snyder was ousted from his ownership post of the team in 2021 after a massive expose of sexual harassment under his watch was released in 2020. He's been mired in investigations over financial conduct, fraud, and deceptive business practices as well, to which I can only say "good".

The night's main topic, which has no YouTube video anywhere (I'm sorry), is immigration. John says he has a vested interest in the topic and the audience laughs, which is funny-weird because it doesn't seem like John is trying to humorously highlight his insider nature here. The real focus here is the debate over immigration reforms, as the system is (and remains) very broken and anti-immigrant sentiment is high all over the world.

I do wish this clip was on YouTube. It's not the most informative piece on immigration, but is a nice window into how much John loved this country prior to the beginning of its full collapse. This definitely takes much more from The Daily Show mold, being a comedic monologue interspersed with news clips that allow John to riff on the state of immigration, as opposed to later LWT immigration segments, which tend to be exceptionally sobering. This one is comparatively light-hearted and surface-level, and John delivers the material with a very comfortable confidence. I don't think the segment itself is a standout, but I really like John's attitude here.

We technically get our first animal-fucking joke during this segment, which is about bears only fucking face to face and stops John cold as he helplessly giggles over it. One step closer to getting all the running jokes in order!

Somehow, the end of this with the animated Actual American Tale video is on YouTube, so please enjoy one of the most depressing things LWT has ever put together. It's genuinely far more distressing than the actual main topic segment.

The episode ends with the only appearance of "recurring segment" Great Minds: People Who Think Good, where John interviews Stephen Hawking. Interestingly, I was listening to a podcast today (gonna likely make a separate post on it) where John talked about how much he loved interviewing Hawking and how he wanted to showcase the man's wit and humour more than his intelligence. I think that the interview is incredibly successful in that regard.

I adore this interview so much. Never have I had so much fun watching John get totally roasted.

Random notes:

Lee is a very predictable man corner: today we get a black suit jacket with lavender shirt and dark purple tie, which is a great look, 9/10. The only thing keeping it from being a 10 is that it's missing an element of boldness. Maybe a deep purple jacket or a shinier tie?

Lee continues being predictable in a second bullet point: the interview outfit is a black suit jacket with a light-blue and white checkered shirt and black tie. Definitely a pedestrian but still solid look and I still love the baby blue on John, so I give this 7/10.

Please stop making me talk about American football in these, John, I beg you.

"I lost my virginity to the sound of a man ranting about Bulgarians." This is so far the best line of early LWT, I will bear no other arguments.

There are no random 1 minute YouTube clips of isolated jokes this episode! 🎊

Once an episode, someone from the past 20 years of American political culture pops up that I've completely forgotten about and am upset to be reminded of. This week, it's Michele Bachmann, who I refuse to look up to see what she's doing now. You cannot make me think more about Michele fucking Bachmann.

There is an extended interview with Stephen Hawking that adds a few nice bits, like John asking Stephen a meandering hypothetical about him being a drug lord with inconsistent staff.

[asumofwords]

Idk who could already be in the room unless it's aemond, but I've counted and it's only the 5th day since he left, he can't be back that early right? Even aegon was like "aemond should be here soon" which means he probably isn't, unless he wasn't informed of his return, but knowing him, he would've extended his stay with alys but oh god he's unpredictable rn.

Could it be daemon? That would actually be nice, like him going through the secret passageways for his daughter aaaa, it could also be alicent but idk what business she has with the reader, luke or helaena's ghost/hallucination maybe? There's so many possibilities ooooo, I don't think it will be baela or jace cause uhm the red keep would've been in flames by then but who knows.

I was going to guess the maester but it would be too inappropriate for him to wait for the lady, who isn't injured or in need of medical attention, in her shared chambers while her husband is gone

ALSO!! please don't feel pressured to answer until the chapter is published, like all of us are really excited and anticipating of what will happen next and it's mostly light hearted guessing and questioning, like even this I'm just pondering the possibilities, throwing the cake to the wall and seeing what sticks tbh, I might as well name the ALL the characters because at least one of them has to be right and then I'll be like "YOOOO I GUESSED IT CORRECTLY" 😭😭

It's definitely rhaenyra, daemon, jace, baela, rhaena, luke, helaena, daeron, aemond, alicent, otto, larys, alys, the maester, the maids, a septa, a septon, viserys, jasper, harwin strong, joffrey, rhaenys, corlys, her dead dragons soul, justin bieber, michael jackson, barrack obama, ariana grande, billie eilish, jesus christ himself for sure!!! 🫣🤓🫨 (last ones are a joke AJSJSK)

“Y/n?” she turned around to where the direction of the voice came from, her eyes widening in shock as her breath hitches in her throat, her heart almost jumping out at the sight in front of her, “Heehee” he uttered while moon walking, it was Michael jackson.

NOT MICHAEL JAXKSON HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HEE HEE

[scrollll]

>>Possible spoiler for the next ep and if no spoiler then new food for theories i guess<<

Anyway, I will put it under a cut

So... watched the behind the scenes, which I can only recommend everyone.

The dynamic between the actors is amazing and just so cute to look at!

(Not the behind the scenes from ep7, it's another ep but LOOK AT THEMMM)

Ahem, back to the topic, sorry.

So... I noticed something

It was the bts of the last scene of ep 7. You see this:

The shooting of the shooting scene-*BONK!* okay, i deserved that one for this joke...

Still, it is the final scene, we see Phop tied to his chair, Nont targeting Nuth from his position next to him. Just like we saw but only another perspective. Let's continue.

Nont loosing his last respective marbles and threatening to kill Phop if Nuth doesn't spill the tea soon (oh, I need to make a meme for this, sry my humour is in shambles)

Okay, but in the series, Nuth begs Nont to stop, he cries for Phop and is loosing his mind.

And then we get the fucking cliffhanger with nothing else than a BANG sound of the unsexy kind and Nuth screaming Phops name. I think everyone still knows that, and yet here I am forcing the beautiful memory back to you, I love you too. Because now comes the interesting shit.

Namely the behind the scenes.

This one. First, fuck, because OUR LITTLE ONE IS DOWN, GET AN AMBULANCE, CALL 911, OBAMA, ANYONE, HEEEEELLLLLPPPP

Oh wait...

Wait a second...

...

Where is the blood? Where is the SPLATSH of his brain flying everywhere? Where is the beautiful cinematic shot of his white shirt slowly sucking up the specks of blood and getting drenched while Phop gaze is fading and his breath is stopping?

Yeah.

Yeah, I am no doctor, but my knowledge goes beyond a sponge bath...

This and my part-time job qualifies me enough to say, that that's not how a corpse looks like.

From a cinematic point of view it could be possible that Nont shots him and Phop just gets thrown out of the picture so there's no need to spill the blood everywhere.

But I don't think thats what they are going for because in picture 5 and 6 the camera is clearly focused on Phop hitting the ground...

Still, it COULD be possible that this is a shot meant to be shown for 2 seconds before tha blood begins to drip...

So yeah, I am putting on my clown make up and start getting my hopes higher up, that Phop will survive.

But I could be fooled and now fooling you too so yeah, take it with a grain of salt^^;

[tuttle-did-it]

The games Harris has had to play to be accepted by mainstream society is revolting. I’m sure there were probably many other people Harris could have and probably wanted to choose. But

Sidenote: I have nothing against Waltz (because I know nothing about him) but rather than an old white man, you know whom I would have really loved Harris to pick?

Monica Lewinsky.

That’s right. Not even joking. Monica is exceptionally intelligent, and because she was thrown under the bus by both republikkkans and dems, she spent the last 20+ years standing up for herself when her name was a world-wide punchline to most people. Even in the 90s I was like ‘this woman does not deserve this shit. He was her boss and the most powerful man in the world, why ate up blaming her? what are you people doing?! She was a 22 year old child. Fuck off.’

This woman knows more than most about the games politics plays. She knows how to handle the media. She’s incredibly well-spoken and well educated. She’s an activist. She’s intelligent, and she has walked through the fire of politics for decades -- in fires no one else on these ballots ever have. She re-entered the public world because of the tragic death of Tyler Clementi. So she became an activist and advocate.

Do I think this would have ever really happened? No.

Do I think Harris even thought of it? No.

Do I think Lewinsky would have wanted or accepted the offer? No.

Do I think Lewinsky could have actually done the position and helped people? Yes.

Do I think her years of activism and working as an advocate would have made up for her absence from politics? Yes.

Do I think it would actually need a fantastic combo? Hell yes.

Would I pay money to see the Clinton’s reactions to this? Take all my money.

It never would have happened, but it’s a fun thing to think about.

I wonder who Harris would have really picked if she had the free choice and didn’t have to tick a box of ‘white old man’ to pacify the sexists and racists who are still uncomfortable with not having a white man in office.

Michelle Obama would have also been an interesting choice. I don’t know a lot about her, so I’m not sure if she’s even interested in being in politics herself. But she also seems intelligent and well spoken.

Biden dropped out because progressives and young people complained. Harris picked Walz because progressives and young people complained. In my life I've never seen so many concessions to get us on board. We need to turn out like hell, donate like hell, volunteer like hell and turn this into an absolute blowout or we may never see this level of willingness to play ball with us again

[rockislandadultreads]

New Title Tuesday: Memoirs

Owner of a Lonely Heart by Beth Nguyen

At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth’s mother stayed—or was left—behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than twenty-four hours together.

Owner of a Lonely Heart is a memoir about parenthood, absence, and the condition of being a refugee: the story of Beth’s relationship with her mother. Framed by a handful of visits over the course of many years—sometimes brief, sometimes interrupted, sometimes with her mother alone and sometimes with her sister—Beth tells a coming-of-age story that spans her own Midwestern childhood, her first meeting with her mother, and becoming a parent herself. Vivid and illuminating, Owner of a Lonely Heart is a deeply personal story of family, connection, and belonging: as a daughter, a mother, and as a Vietnamese refugee in America.

The Best Strangers in the World by Ari Shapiro

From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lover letter to journalism. In his first book, broadcaster Ari Shapiro takes us around the globe to reveal the stories behind narratives that are sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking, but always poignant. He details his time traveling on Air Force One with President Obama, or following the path of Syrian refugees fleeing war, or learning from those fighting for social justice both at home and abroad. As the self-reinforcing bubbles we live in become more impenetrable, Ari Shapiro keeps seeking ways to help people listen to one another; to find connection and commonality with those who may seem different; to remind us that, before religion, or nationality, or politics, we are all human. The Best Strangers in the World is a testament to one journalist’s passion for Considering All Things—and sharing what he finds with the rest of us.

What the Dead Know by Barbara Butcher

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected lifeline: a job at the Medical Examiner’s Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. The work was gritty, demanding, morbid, and sometimes dangerous – she loved it.

Butcher (yes, that is her real name, and she has heard all the jokes) spent day in and day out investigating double homicides, gruesome suicides, and most heartbreaking of all, underage rape victims who had also been murdered. In What the Dead Know, she writes with the kind of New York attitude and bravado you might expect from decades in the field, investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, 680 of which were homicides. This is the fascinating and stunning real-life story of a woman who, in dealing with death every day, learned surprising lessons about life—and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself. 

When the World Didn't End by Guinevere Turner

On January 5, 1975, the world was supposed to end. Under strict instructions, six-year-old Guinevere Turner put on her best dress, grabbed her favorite toy, and waited with the rest of her community for salvation - a spaceship that would take them to live on Venus. But the spaceship never came.

Guinevere did not understand that her family was a cult. She spent most of her days on a compound in Kansas, living apart from her mother with dozens of other children who worked in the sorghum fields and roved freely through the surrounding pastures, eating mulberries and tending to farm animals. But there was a dark side to this bucolic existence. Guinevere was part of the Lyman Family, a secluded cult spearheaded by Mel Lyman, a self-proclaimed savior, committed to isolation from a World he declared had lost its way. When Guinevere caught the attention of Jessie, the woman everyone in the Family called the Queen, her status was elevated - suddenly she was traveling with the inner circle among communities in Los Angeles, Boston, and Martha’s Vineyard.

But before long, the life Guinevere had known ended. Her mother, from whom she had been separated since age three, left the Family with another disgraced member, and Guinevere and her four-year-old sister were forced to leave with them. Traveling outside the bounds of her cloistered existence, Guinevere was thrust into public school for the first time, a stranger in a strange land wearing homemade clothes, and clueless about social codes. Now out in the World she’d been raised to believe was evil, she faced challenges and horrors she couldn’t have imagined.

[pyrothorax]

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[wonderlandleighleigh]

Midge & Lenny getting awarded a Presidential Medal, preferably by Obama

(would you take Lenny's intro to Midge's Kennedy Center Honors segment instead?)

“Ladies and gentlemen…Lenny Bruce!” 

He steps out onto the stage with a microphone and nods as the crowd applauds. 

“Good evening. As you all are aware, I am Lenny Bruce, and I will be your MC for this portion of the show. Be warned, this type of gig got me banned from the Catskills back in the day. And pre-emptively, I am not sorry for anything naughty that leaves my lips tonight."

He gets laughs and applause for that before continuing.

"Now…just before I came out here, I was handed a note from my beautiful, very funny wife who happens to be one of tonight’s honorees and the reason I am up here.” 

He unfolds the paper and squints at it before digging a pair of glasses from his inside breast pocket and putting them on. “It's hell getting old, folks." He clears his throat as the audience chuckles. "'Dear Oscar, Tony, Grammy and 2-Time Peabody award winner Leonard Alfred Schneider' - oh. She’s using the real last name, this must be serious - 'Please do not say the following words on stage at the Kennedy Center Honors: Fuck, Motherfucker, Cocksucker, Cunt, Shit, and tits.'” 

 He blinks owlishly out at the laughing audience before crumpling up the note and tossing it behind him.

“Well now that we have all of that out of the way, let’s talk about Midge Maisel.” He paces the stage, contemplating his wife. "Let's see…she makes the best damn brisket you have ever tasted. She sounds as though she may be dying when she sings…what else…ah yes. She is the funniest lady I know. When acts like Sophie Lennon were selling tired caricatures of housewives, and Moms Mabley was locked out of the mainstream thanks to segregation, Midge was talking about real life. About failed marriages. Sex. Motherhood. She took her very real pain and put it on display for all to see, and all to laugh at. The first time I saw her perform, she did an entire bit about the trials and uncertainties of motherhood and then roasted me in front of people who had paid to see my act. And she did it while high as a fu-uuudging kite."

He waits for the laugh to subside. 

"Unapologetic about her work, and entirely willing to hold the door open for the comics who came after her, she helped pave the way for women in comedy, and she's been an inspiration to all of us joke slingers over the years. Any asshole who complains that women aren’t funny has clearly never caught one of Midge’s shows. On a personal note, she's been one of my most ardent defenders in the face of certain legal doom, and she is, without question, the best partner in crime a dumb schmuck like me could ever hope for. Friends, this is Midge Maisel."

[downtroddendeity]

None of you asked, but here it is anyway.

And for the record, yes, I did eventually eat lunch.

Starting assumptions:

I'm putting the start of the game contemporaneous with its release date, so 2018.

The single definite point of timeline divergence I have decided on between the US in our universe and what I have taken to calling "The United Union of Eagleland" is that Reagan didn't exist. Therefore, the Republican Party is still evil but it doesn't have rabies yet, and all major political events in the last 40 years are up in the air.

I overshot my guesses about Roland's age in my first few posts because it was funnier; with full-game and DLC context, he's probably meant to be in the Obama age bracket and is just going gray early. He is absolutely still significantly older than Batu, though.

Even before the DLC validated me I had Roland pegged as a "my role model is FDR"-style infrastructure Democrat, because canon-wise his skillset is in the nuts and bolts of making a government that functions and he doesn't get heated enough about Broadleaf's corporatocracy to be a social justice or labor guy- he can keep his mouth shut when the other rulers are evil, but slips up when the way they run things is just dumb.

Since our guy is the Jungian Archetype of The President of the United States, when in doubt, assume the most Generically Presidential option.

I said in one of my jokes that he's from Illinois solely because a midwestern swing state is the most Generically Presidential and Illinois is the one with the funniest-sounding name. This reasoning is clearly foolproof.

Roland is born in 1966 (making him 52 at the start of the game), and growing up has zero intention of going into politics. The incident with the bullies is when he's 10. He gets into gun sports as a hobby as a teen because he's good at it and into 14th-century German longsword combat because he's a fucking nerd, unwittingly creating both an extensive paper trail of pictures of him at firing ranges that will become very convenient for countering NRA PR and an equally extensive paper trail of pictures of him at Renaissance Fairs that will become the greatest gift Eagleland political memes have ever received. He graduates law school somewhere respectable but not elite and goes into civil litigation. He marries his theoretical mystery wife at 31, but they keep putting off having kids because This Just Isn't A Good Time For Us. Then in like 1999, he's representing the plaintiffs in a lawsuit where some Regional Business Asshole who basically owns a couple of small towns has been doing a bunch of blatantly illegal stuff to harass people in a specific area because Business Asshole has a huge deal pending with some giant petrochemical company for fracking but can't move forward with it because a handful of people smack in the middle refuse to sign over the mineral rights for their property. Being a lawyer is frequently depressing, so now that Roland has one of the relatively rare chances in the job to be categorically The Good Guy he is getting into it. Giant petrochemical companies are evil but impersonal, but Regional Business Assholes are just some shitty guy and thus prone to getting mad and doing things that are evil but also very stupid, and that is why one day when Roland Crane, Esq. is walking out of his office on his way to a deposition some guy he's never seen before in his life walks up to him and fucking shoots him.

Except, unfortunately for the guy who got handed twenty grand in unmarked bills by the brother of the buddy of this guy the associate director of operations to the Business Asshole knows, being something you only study if you're a fucking nerd does not change the fact that historical European martial arts is, in fact, a form of close combat training, and Roland kicks the shit out of him. The security camera footage is pretty grainy, but the photos are incredible. It makes the news. It makes so much news, and of course it gets picked up nationally because they've got time to fill and this is fucking wild, and since it's 1999 and even though fracking is starting to really take off almost nobody has heard of it yet, this also kicks off a bunch of people going "oh my god I can't believe we didn't know about this sinister corporate scheme in MAYBE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD that they sent CORPORATE NINJA ASSASSINS over!!!" (Roland always corrects people that it wasn't a corporate ninja assassin, it was some guy who wanted beer money, and also the giant corporate conglomerate didn't actually do anything, it was some dumb asshole, but he knows that just makes him sound modest and while he’d be forced to admit that isn’t exactly a downside he would occasionally like it if people believed him.)

(Roland Crane, Master of Repression, subsequently started doing very normal things like, oh, say, wearing a loaded gun in a concealed carry holster on a thirty-minute drive from the airport to his hotel, which are certainly not indicative of any sort of trauma at all, and he finds it quite strange when anyone suggests that this is anything but a completely reasonable and sensible precaution to begin taking. Worked out for Evan, at least.)

Roland realizes his five minutes of fame are a golden opportunity, because he never really thought about going into government before but right now everyone knows his name and face and thinks of him as a badass crusader for justice standing up to The Man. He announces a run for House of Reps in like March and crushes the incumbent in the primary and that’s why I keep getting my difficulty gauge hiked up in the bonus dungeon. He wins in the general election and stays there for four terms while racking up a record of bills and amendments and cosponsorships on the kind of legislation that nobody gets really excited about, but if you list a few of them pretty much everyone will react to at least one of them as something that they just kinda noticed made their life get easier and more pleasant one day and didn’t realize was something their personal Congress Guy had a hand in. "Your income tax paperwork is slightly easier now," "you don't get 12 scam robocalls a day anymore," "you can buy diapers with food stamps," that kind of stuff.

Will is born in 2005. This was not planned, but Roland and his unnamed mystery wife kinda went, “Well, it’s still not a great time, but the time’s not going to be getting better any time soon, so…”

In 2008, Roland runs for Senate and wins.

Roland’s wife dies of terminal Being A Mom In The Ni No Kuni Franchise in 2013. The fact that he literally never alludes to her in any way in the entire game even on the single occasion she is directly mentioned is proof of how totally healthily he has processed his grief and certainly not indicative of any emotional baggage at all. Will is eight at the time, and totally definitely having healthy grief processing modeled for him and receiving the emotional support he needs.

He keeps his Senate seat in 2014. I have no idea what the overall 2016 Presidential election lineup looked like in Eagleland because the one in our universe was such a nightmare clownshow, but somebody notices that hey, they’ve got this guy who a) is charismatic and good-looking, b) has a reasonable amount of government experience without being a Washington Insider™, c) has a legislative record so deeply boring that it’s surprisingly hard to attack despite being extensive, but, d) simultaneously has a handful of details of his personal life and history so absolutely buck-fucking-wild that they instantly make him the most interesting person in basically any room.

And that’s how the United Union of Eagleland got universal health care, thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

I accidentally headcanoned 1200 words of Roland Crane backstory instead of eating lunch. Happy Presidents' Day, everyone.

[spn-season-16-chronicles]

The great chronicles of season 16

I'm making the chronicles and will be grateful if you tell me what I forgot. Also there might be one day difference - chronicles were made according to CET timezone.

The 5th of November 2020 - destiel is canon and homophobic (according to memes and also kinda in retrospect), we know after tweet mentioning also Putin stepping down and. While vote counting was taking place. Spn trending on tumblr and twitter. As well as Destiel. Over the presidential election.

The 11th of November - Misha stated that Cas loved Dean romantically, and the confession was of a very homosexual nature

The 12 th of November - 15x19 - two mentions of Cas (including Lucifer impersonating him, which implies that Dean reciprocated Cas’ feelings), plot resumed, speculations about parallel to Dean being pulled out from Hell by Cas

Whole week of build-up and speculations

The 18th of November - Entertainment Weekly publishes (now most likely deleted or strongly edited) videointerview with Jensen talking about wanting to have a keepsake of sorts. So he had a crew member record the confession scene with his phone, unadulterated, unedited, with no music. To remember it as Jensen and Misha's last moment on set, not Dean and Cas' final goodbye. Says they had a few takes, some more emotional than others. And that some things they recorded were cut. Unlikely he'll ever publish it, as it is his personal keepsake. In same interview he say that Kripke was the one to convince him that Dean's ending was good and Jensen should think about how fans would react to it

The 19th of November - The Episode That Must Not Be Named airs and is bad, and instead of a long episode we got one shorter than the rest of season finales and a documentary. Canons were not confirmed on screen (Destiel and Seileen). Subplot not resumed. No reunion with supporting characters, nor with Cas or Jack. People angry. Cast silent

Multiple charity projects as an act of rage against c*w started hours after finale

The 22nd of November - Misha saying that Cas had rainbow wings

Inbetween events anger, sadness, fix-it fics, jackles' silence, and conspiracy theories

The 24th of November - Destiel canon again but in Spanish - causes tumblr servers to shut down

"#They silenced you" twitter campaign

The 25th of November - Indian Netflix edit

The 26th of November - Misha is talking about rogue translator, and makes people angry. Apologises later that day and promises to listen to criticism. Misha remains the only one till date to address criticism at all

The 27th of November - The alleged leaked Italian dub tricks people into thinking that there was 2nd dub reciprocation on Dean’s part

The 28th of November - People freaking out because Obama followed stan twitter acc

The 30th of November - Italian dub (ofc) fake

Brazilian dub - speculations that Dean said something in ending scene, but those were only added sounds of birds tweeting

People continue freaking out cause Heller Obama

The 30th of November - Sarah Z uploads her Destiel/SPN video to youtube

The 5th of December - Misha announced fundraising for voting rights with cast and Stacey Abrams, and people were wondering what will happen, Destiel gets own ship category in hellsite's 2020 year in review

The 7th of December - info about Misha's nude photo floods hellsite, people making fanarts furiously

The 8th of December - Mini reversed Mishapocalypse - Misha allegedly has secret tumblr acc so everyone in here could be Misha. People frantically asking stans if they are Misha

Misha stirs the pot by tweeting about wild questions, weird acting choices, and cut scenes

The 8th of November (the evening) - meeting very uneventful, people tad bit dissatisfied, but in bloopers Jensen is making a joke about bottoming (or so I am told) . OH, and they were telling very weird story about Jared giving massage to Sebastian Roche

The 9th of December - Jensen allegedly states that Dean is bi and a bottom, no clear source tho, probably fake. End of Heller Obama

The 10th of December - denial that The Episode That Must Not Be Named even happened, shipping Jenmish as coping mechanism. Misha praised "castiel project" on Trevorproject and people thought that he donated 1000 bucks (but it was a big-hearted fan - we love ya)

The 10th/11th of December - Taylor Swift drops new album and people are looking for Destiel subtext - unconfirmed Heller Swift. And Stacey Abrams liked the ending (good for her)

The 11th of December - possible 3rd canon Destiel, because of script suggesting that something didn't make it to the final cut, but the authenticity is hard to define. Script hinting at romantic feelings at Cas' part including his POV "Still beautiful. Still Dean Winchester"

Authenticity of script confirmed by Adam Williams, of all people, who goes unhinged, for like 10 hours, on twitter after that.(The origin story of stuff like "pesky danglers", "New universes created if they'd kiss", "drunken brojobs" and "Dean clearly is alfa male. But who knows, alfas are very generous). Jared was praising the finale.

The 12th of December - Destiel going canon (?) for the 4th time because of rogue Heller director of LatAm dub. In his interpretation Dean was bi, and in love with Cas, and the English scene version was too subtle for love this big and obvious. Whole dubbing crew had same standpoint, so they went with it. They denied that any kind of reciprocation was in original script, there was no other audio

The 13th of December - spn trending AGAIN because of LatAm dub actors panel. There were a lot of widely contradicting statements. It looks like there never was reciprocation in any of English sources, but we cannot be sure. There was "I too" in Hispanic script changed by director to more expressive, better fitting to mouth movement version. Whole cast was on board with that version. Warner Brothers either did not check what was on final tapes or did not care, not knowing what kind of chaos would that version unleash. They probably accepted the script with "i too" but for now it is not proven to be true nor false. Talks about interview with director himself

The 14th of December - discovery of new beer from Jensen's brewery, named "Eyes like the sky" with very flowery and fruity description. Wave of conspiracy theories stating that it is dedicated to Misha because of "11 Jenmish" anniversary. Very few reliable sources. Conspiracy, very improbable

The 15th of December - sheer pain and lil bit of PTSD drags tags from supernatural to trending yet again. Probably triggered by walker trending first. Or other unknown reason. Collective confusion keeps destiel tag on trending for a good part of a day. Fandom officially restored to 2012 state.

The 16th of December - I'm not going to try explaining that... Thing. No, I'm not mad at y'all. Just disappointed. The amount of freakout about BILL CLINTON IN 2020 is astounding. The cause better be forgotten. Jensen had to post a vid to calm you down a little (it mean he did post it, not that he posted it do distract us, that was a joke). And also you summoned to existence articles about the alleged scandal in mainstream media (Newsweek)

The 17th of December - SPN tags still trending because of the aftermath of Bill Clinton deal and Jensen’s thirst trap. Scripts from season 8 dug up. Stating that Dean and Benny “broke up” either confirming yet again Bi!Dean or blatant queerbaiting and queercoding. Misha publishes tweet related to bees (and uses Cas spelling instead of Cass), starting speculations about secret tumblr account yet again

The 18th of December - Misha addresses the Newsweek article on social media. Unknown what does he think about the whole business. Taggs Clinton and Levinsky.

The 20th of December - all supernatural materials and promos get deleted from c*w's websites (including youtube) due to licensing deals. Full rights went back to Warner Brothers that was landing the license to c*w (an I guess who later landed that license to Chaos Machine)

The 25th of December - people analysing purgatory prayer scene from 15x09, claiming that it contains barely audible "I love you" that coincidentally or not gives a new meaning to the whole 09-18 Cas-Dean dynamic (and it even makes more sense that way)

The 31st of December - Mishapocalypse 2.0 has been started and was raging, taking spn to trending for the last time this year

The 3rd of January - Jim Michaels tweets photo from the finale, with caption that provoked people to comment with their critical opinions. Michaels blocks a lot of people that were criticising the finale (not only people that were hateful but also constructive criticism). That ignites a fair amount of drama on both platforms. Michaels likes antiheller tweets from w*ncest and b*bro accounts

The 6th of January - spn trending under US politics because of chaos surrounding Georgia election and insurrection in Washington

The 10th of January - hate speedrun with Greg Hopwood as a target - people in a span of 24 hours since the moment he confirmed that he supports destiel proceeded to spam his posts, demand his resignation (he’s a costume concept designer for the Boys), spam Kripke and other directors, and finished on a death threats sent via social media

The 11th of January - Jensen wins best actor in horror series Critics Choice Super Award, He thanks Jared and the whole crew

The 12th of January - Fandom loses it a little bit after Jensen thanks Mish and Dee on instagram

The 13th of January - Supernatural is officially the most streamed horror show of 2020 with over 20 billion streamed minutes. It’s ranked on 7th place overall

The 15th of January - interview with Jared for Variety is published. It consists of a few bad takes but also reveals that Eileen wasn’t Sam’s wife in any of the scripts he got. That triggers discussion about C*W’s misogyny and disabled representation erasure, as well as treatment of BIPOC representation in mainstream media overall. Leads to reevaluation od Jared’s standpoints and past actions taking place for next few days

The 19th of January - Chaos Machine productions gains official instagram profile and over 4k followers in one day

The 20th of January - hellers and Gen Padalecki getting blamed for rather bad reviews of Walker

The 21st of January - Walker premiers. Internet community not very enthusiastic

The 23rd of January - theories about new Family Business Beer Co. "Rainbow Road", and spam under instagram posts result in site partially disabling the comments

The 24th of January - celebration of Dean's birthday via social media and zoom. Chad Lindberg organises Harvella Roadhouse party via twitter. Gets adopted by fandom

The 26th of January - Kings of Con podcast with Misha premieres. People baffled by the lack of mentions of supernatural 

The 2nd of February - twitter drama with Jim Michaels gets reignited. Discovery of Sky Deutchland instagram post listing Dean as Cas' closest kin

The 3rd February - growing interest in Chad Lindberg's roadhouse idea

The 4th of February - group of twitter fans starts first real steps into fan reshoot of the finale. As of now the state of the project is unclear

The 7th of February - Misha's space pants get auctioned off, which kick-start a project to get those pants back to him

The 9th of February - premiere date for full 15 seasons box set gets announced 

The 13th of February - Kripke reveals that in his vision Sam and Dean were always supposed to die in the end

The 14th of February - fandom celebrates Destiel wedding on both twitter and tumblr. It trends worldwide for long hours on bird app

The 16th of February - fallout with Chad Lindberg and Samantha Ferris after some very bad takes coming from them, one of which was that queer reading would damage the integrity of the story

The 20th of February - tumblr meltdown that escaped containment pushed Steve Yockey into acknowledging it by saying he is in fact not dead

The 28th of February - Kim Rhodes states that she didn't watch nor she's going to watch the finale

The 1st of March - celebration of Jensen's birthday

The 3rd of March - german dub of 15x19 drops. It is romantic as well

The 5th-7th of March - first online con after the finale takes place. The reactions to the way the con was conducted as well as to its actual contents are very mixed. It invokes very strong feelings

The 9th of March - Misha joins Cameo as an effort to fund his community messages. Acknowledges "CastielMatters" hashtag and says that "Actually, CastielEnergies"

The 10th of March - premiere of 15x18 with french dub. Destiel proclaimed canon yet again thanks to more romantic reading visible in the translation. Wanek's book available for preorders. Website containing Dabb's letter that confirmed the big Harvella's reunion party that got scrapped due to covid

The 13th of March - Misha tweets at amazon about shipping. A clearly not serious thing. Shitstorm rages through the fandom

The 14th of March - Misha deletes the tweet and apologises for his joke

The 16th of March - fans publish cameo with Misha saying "still beautiful, still Dean Winchester" in Cas voice

The 17th of March - fandom celebrates Seileen wedding 

The 20th of March - 2nd "still beautiful, still Dean Winchester" drops 

The 21st of March - Saileen wedding celebra this time on twitter 

The 23rd of March - more twitter drama involving Samantha Ferris and Bi!Dean

The 31st of March - a fragment of 15x19 script with Jack's prayer gets leaked

The 1st of April - Mishapocalypse reenactment

The 4th of April - cameo with Misha reciting deleted bit from 05x04 The End gets published

The 7th of April - whole leaked last drafts for 15x19 and 15x20 are published. Number of cut and omitted scenes astounds fandom

The 10th-11th of April - Paris DarkLight Conline 2 takes place

The 13th of April - twitter drama between Jared, people critical of him and his fans

The 18th of April - 2nd draft for Tombstone gets published, reveals copious amounts of subtext consciously written into the text

The 22nd of April - fandom celebrates Midam wedding

The 25th of April - Q&A with Jerry Wanek, set designer takes place. He confirms that ever human who died was supposed to be at the Harvella's roadhouse 

The 26th of April - Misha sighting on oscar gala causes a healthy dose of positive chaos

The 2nd of May - fandom celebrates Sam's birthday

The 8th of May - DarkLight Conline 2 takes place

The 10th of May - footage from online con gets shared. Asked if Berens and him experienced any pushback regarding 15x18 says no, they were gradually clueing more and more people - most likely in fear of said pushback

The 15th of May - Galaxy Con Online takes place

The 18th of May - fandom celebrates Jack's 4th birthday

The 20th of May - stuff from the box set gets shared for promotional purposes 

The 21st of May - even more stuff from the box set gets shared through official channels 

The 22nd of May - full gag reel and deleted scenes from season 15 are published

The 23rd of May - featurette from the box set gets leaked. Fandom very unhappy with its content. Featured cast and crew give contradicting testimonies. More deleted scenes are published

The 25th of May - the box set officially premieres

The 18th of June - Russian dub of 15x18 gets published. It as well is more romantic than the original

The 25th of June - first info regarding prequel produced by Ackles' production company gets published. It confirms that they were in the process of acquiring rights to the series. The series itself is said to center around Mary and John and it would be narrated by Dean. And former spn writer Robbie Thompson will be involved in writing it.That reveal leads to Jared's twitter meltdown and possibly still ongoing fallout between J2. 

The 26th of June - Jensen says there will be no retconning in the series

The 30th of June - Misha posts pick of cas with rainbow wings for coming to an end pride month

The 6th of July - Great Dadstiel Wars wreck havoc on the webbed site

The 16th of July - Perfume Genius shares a self-insert fanfiction starring Jensen Ackles

The 19th of July - Fandom celebrates Jared's birthday

The 2nd of August - Perfume Genius shares next one of his fanfictions in "I slept with all actors in spn series" series. This time starring Jared 

The 9th of August - Castiel/Dean Winchester tag crosses a threshold of 100k fics on Archive Of Our Own webbed site, as a very first fic in history. Misha acknowledges that colossal event as well

The 11th of August - fandom creates hate askbloghs. For homebrew drama 

The 20th of August - fandom celebrates Misha's birthday as well as return of in-person cons

The 2nd of September - Misha posts on his tiktok acc for the very first time. Causes chaos 

The 3rd of September - Jake Abel launches his ad campaign for hot sauce. Employs Michael's and Adam's characters

The 4th-5th of September - Momento Con takes place

The 9th of September - dubbed 15x18 premieres in Italy. Unlike its fake counterpart from December it is very sonservative with its Iloveyou's opting for platonic version. This draws Misha's attention, and he publishes short video with his own "ti amo"

The 13th of September - anniversary of airing of the very first spn episode

The 17th-18th of September - Fan X Comic Convention takes place

The 18th of September - Fandom celebrates Cas Day/Cas' Birthday, commemorating his first appearance on the show

The 25-26th of September - UK Crossroads Con takes place

The 5th of October - Misha complains about the pain of playing in a queerbaiting show. Basically calling out supernatural on its queerbaiting

The 12th of October - Misha's poetry book, containing one poem from Cas' POV, officially premieres

The 15th-17th of October - Denver Con takes place. J2M reunite for the first time since march 2020. The highest of highs and lowest of lows

The 19th of October - The cule launches a emails writing campaign aimed at creation entertainment, taking a stance against censorship on their cons. The answer from creation being basically "we are not homophobic, we can't be homophobic, my son is trans and he works with us. Any eventual censorship is on the volunteers

The 4th of November - fandom celebrates eve of Destiel anniversary

The 5th of November 2021 - fandom celebrates one year anniversary of canon destiel. Loudly and unabashedly. Trying to revive the spirit of that night and reminiscing the events of last year

The 19th of November 2021 - fandom commemorates the first anniversary of cursed finale

Last updated: 31st December 2021

Thanks for the the info on the things that I’ve missed to: @clarasmoon @lostboyfromneverland5 @antifacas and @sinnabonka

And shout-out:

To the people who leaked 15x18 script (unfortunately i don’t know who you are)

To people who’ve put together 8h edit of Destiel scenes - @gaIlaghcr at twitter.com (go there for links)

To people studying confession scene with math and 3d models (can’t find ya, so can someone put a link below)

To everyone donating to charity out of sheer rage

Sources: tumblr hellsite dot com, twitter, instagram, mainstream media (pink news, newsweek and rest)

I for sure forgot about something, sooo tag me in other posts? Dm me, comment?

[spooksier]

Do You Hear That? It's Gay Rights!

Fiction Podcasts and their role in LGBTQ representation

Invented in 2004, podcasts—a form of content which relies on episodic audio files—have blown up in recent years, becoming another major form of creating and sharing content to join the myriad of others that have cropped up. Everybody from former First Lady Michelle Obama to talk show host Conan O'Brien have their own podcast where they discuss their own opinions or interview others on a variety of topics for an audience of thousands. However, while more informative podcasts do have their place, one fairly recent advent that interests me is the existence of fiction podcasts.Podcasts that take inspiration from the era of radio programs of the mid-1900s  and follow a story arc creating their own characters and worlds that play out entirely over audio; what particularly interests me and many other is something that many fiction podcasts are ripe with—LGBTQ representation, good representation too. A fair amount of these shows have an almost entirely LGBTQ cast of characters and treat these characters with a degree of respect and care that queer viewers are not to seeing in other forms of mainstream entertainment. Three shows I recognize as having particularly successful representation is Night Vale Presents' Welcome to Night Vale, Rusty Quill's The Magnus Archives, and Sophie Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert's The Penumbra Podcast (Junoverse); three podcasts that have a queer main character and a mostly (or entirely) queer supporting cast. The type of representation shown in these works is one that is a realistic, multi-faceted existence of gay people that have their own lives, goals, personalities, and complex relationships.

When talking about LGBTQ representation in mainstream entertainment, one of the biggest critiques myself and many other queer viewers have is how gay characters are treated when referring to their same-gender attraction. Shows like the wildly popular sitcom Friends come to mind where the mere presence of a gay character is a punchline come to mind, where the character's sexuality is the joke and isn't meant to be taken seriously—something that fiction podcasts wholly avoid. Welcome to Night Vale, a science-fiction podcast that has been running since June 2012, comes right out of the gate in it's first episode in announcing that the main character Cecil Palmer is gay and the only joke to be found is how he's so quickly fallen for a scientist named Carlos—regularly interrupting his own show to update listeners on Carlos the scientist and his "perfect hair". Cecil's relationship with Carlos is mentioned multiple times in the following episodes, Cecil's crush never being treated as some fling or non-serious thing that only lasted an episode and the two end up in a happy, healthy relationship where they are completely devoted to each other. The Penumbra Podcast (in their episodes based in the universe of Juno Steel) has a similar approach to getting the main character's queerness understood quickly—when private investigator Juno Steel is paired with Peter Nureyev (presently under the alias of 'Rex Glass'), Peter's attraction to Juno is referenced multiple times throughout the two episodes they're together; Juno never reacts adversely or thinks of Peter as being somebody predatory even though the listener assumes Juno Steel as being heterosexual at the beginning due to the heteronormativity of the noir crime genre. Towards the end, the two do end up sharing a kiss in Juno's apartment, something that honestly surprised me during my first listen as I had assumed that Peter's advances wouldn't be reciprocated. Even though they do part ways at the end, Juno regularly thinks about Peter and considers him as somebody he needs to be with due to his strong feelings for him up until they reconnect. What impressed me is that even though it is made obvious that Juno's love interest is somebody of the same gender, his bisexuality is still very present and something that cannot be divorced from his character. Because the Magnus Archives takes place in modern London instead of a parallel dimension of conspiracy theories like Night Vale or on Mars in the far future like Penumbra, it has a more realistic approach to portraying the sexuality of the characters. Even though the audience does not learn about the main character Jonathan Sims' sexuality until mid-season three and late season four, the podcast is still full of complex queer characters that have their own important places in the narrative. Jon's sexuality is brought up first through office gossip between the characters Basira Hussain and Melanie King where they discuss the relationship between him and another character Martin Blackwood in this discussion it's revealed that Jon is actually asexual and sex-repulsed, this information Melanie received from Jon's ex-girlfriend Georgie Barker who Melanie ends up dating in later seasons. There's no over the top reaction from either women, just a simple comment of "that explains a lot" and they move on. Jon's asexuality becomes more important because he does end up in a romantic relationship with Martin and it is so rare to see not only a non-sexual character as the lead but to have the main pairing of the show be a non-sexual one when so much queer representation is so overly sexualized. All three of these shows have a non-straight main character—Juno Steel and Jon Sims being bisexual/biromatic and Cecil Palmer being gay—that aren’t treated as weird, predatory, or overly flighty when it comes to commitment but are written as complex, personality-filled characters who are serious about who they love.

Furthermore, these podcasts all play in a specific genre that has historically not been a place where queer people have been welcomed. Welcome to Night Vale injects queer love and queer life into the incredibly heterosexual genre that is science-fiction that typically only shows a speculative environment for heterosexual, cisgender white people. Night Vale's radical queerness stretches past the duo of Cecil and Carlos and applies to the entirety of the small desert town of Night Vale, it's not atypical to hear of a trans character like Sheriff Sam who uses they/them pronouns or follow the developing romance of Michelle Nguyen and Maureen; Night Vale is a queer space in science-fiction and one we desperately need. In another facet of an almost exclusively heterosexual and white genre is the Penumbra Podcast, not only is Juno's bisexuality antithetical to the genre of noir but his absolute refusal to conform to a typical form gender expression flies in the face of all of the hyper-masculine characters that came before him. Juno refers to himself as a lady in multiple episodes, uses typically feminine descriptors for himself, and even wears a ballgown and six-inch heels during a heist just because he wanted to. Many listeners to Penumbra even cite Juno Steel's form of gender expression as the first thing that made them realize that they didn't have to conform to society's expectations of how they should behave. Where the noir genre usually concerns the grittiness, sexual, and immoral facets of life, Penumbra goes in the direction of hope, queer love, and community. While The Magnus Archives is definitely a horror podcast, it refuses to let itself play to the usual tropes and cliches of the genre. Queer characters in horror are normally seen through weak, stereotyped characters or through violent criminals (think Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs), the Magnus Archives avoids this by making both heroic and villainous characters queer and before anything, giving these characters developed personalities. Listeners can find representation in Martin Blackwood, a gay character who is kind, attentive, and loves fiercely in the light of an apocalypse; or in Elias Bouchard, a gay character who is an insufferable sociopath and bashed another character's head in with a lead pipe. What connects all three of these podcasts is that they all exist in genres where relationships are seen as disposable, where it is perfectly in form for the main character to have a different love interest each week, but all three defy this by each having a steady, happy queer relationship as the focal point of romance.

As important as it is to examine these podcasts in-universe, it is also vital to inspect the community surrounding each of them. The communities around these podcasts are full of queer people who are energetically supported by the creatives who created said podcasts and are encouraged to interpret the queerness of the characters. For example, an error in the show notes for episode 132 of the Magnus Archives referred to Jon Sims with they/them pronouns, once it was pointed out to the writer (who is also Jon's voice actor) he didn't shoot down the possibility of Jon being nonbinary or even correct the error—he simply let the possibility stay there for whoever would feel comforted by having a character like them. A theory I hold for why queer people flock to podcasts is that it is a form of content that is safe to consume while in the closet or in an environment where one cannot be openly themselves; it's an audio-only medium and, due to most fiction podcasts still being somewhat unknown, their queerness is not widely talked about unlike mainstream television where the existence of a non-cishet character is more often than not widespread news. The communities for these podcasts are safe havens for queer individuals who feel unwelcome anywhere else.

Mainstream television also has its fair share of queer media—shows that have queer characters or have a largely queer fanbase—that, while they have their own strengths, pale in comparison to fiction podcasts they share genres with when it comes to respectful representation. CW's Riverdale boasts that it has a heaping of good representation but it does not reach the level of representation that another noir mystery show like the Penumbra Podcast has; firstly Riverdale has gotten into hot water due to overly sexualizing their teen characters, including the non-straight ones, and even queerbaiting audience members by promising a gay kiss but only to reveal that the kiss wasn't meant to be romantic, only a distraction at best or entirely non-consensual at worse. The long-running science-fiction show Doctor Who also has some catching up to do when compared to Welcome to Night Vale; while in recent years there's been a definite step towards more inclusion of queer characters, there is still something to be desired in the way queer characters and relationships are shown. Bill Potts, the first lesbian companion in the show's history, is a wonderful character but her relationship with Heather is barely developed and seemingly glossed over unlike the relationship between Cecil and Carlos which is a deeply complex and well-written partnership that's been in the works since episode one. It also falls into a stereotype of a promiscuous multi-gender attracted person in the character of Captain Jack Harkness. The largest divide I believe is seen between the CW's Supernatural and the Magnus Archives. Both shows are brutal horrors where not everybody survives, Rusty Quill even bills the Magnus Archives as a tragedy but there is a big difference between how both shows treat its queer characters. Supernatural has only one lesbian character that appeared in more than one episode of its fifteen year run—she was killed off. It has also been widely ridiculed for queerbaiting its audience over the possible relationship between the characters Dean Winchester and Castiel, constantly using the will-they-won't-they of their relationship to draw in viewers only to not act on it. Dean's actor, Jesen Ackles, even says that he is uncomfortable with the possibility of the relationship, a far cry from the creatives behind the Magnus Archives who are happy to support their fans in their joy over the queer relationships. All in all, mainstream television has a long way to go before they reach the standard fiction podcasts have set when it comes to representation.

In conclusion, the advent of fiction podcasts is a monumental moment in the movement towards the inclusion of LGBTQ people beyond just a token, stereotyped character; they offer a world where we are the heroes and we are treated with the respect that we've been denied for so long. Welcome to Night Vale, the Penumbra Podcast, the Magnus Archives, and many others are all expertly crafted audio dramas that have queer characters that think and breathe and live; their existence is proof that good, complex representation is possible even with the barest necessities available to your production. Mainstream entertainment has to take note and try to follow in the footsteps of these works if they hope to capture even a bit of the magic and safety these podcasts have brought to the lives of queer people.